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THEN you realise there are some smart arse arrogant p***s on this forum. FURTHERMORE you realise that you have a life and maybe don't sit on the Internet all day... THEN you wonder why you're explaining yourself to some keyboard comedian.
for the anti bbc brigade, ever been abroad? ever watched foriegn TV?
yes there is alot of things wrong with the bbc, but the alternatives!!!!!
unicorns aren't real?
Best advice ever!
Wow... How sad I can't share your joy
Brilliant!
Nice!
Don't be... I know you work hard for your money and spend it on nice little things for yourself like this game and all your hard work and diligence in playing this game pay off in nice little ways like winning today's stage...
Ah! The joy of being Premium!
I could never have imagined how wrong I was going to be (!). The top spot and the No. 3 spot are being held by Standard players right now! Wow!...
On the other hand, keeping their team from Stage 15 and banking transfers turned out pretty nicely for STEVESPRO and drheaton!
There are some amazing players in the Standard ranks! : ) Wow!
Here's today's ranking of the top Standard players in the Top 25 overall:
1 Mountain Renegade tony kappler
3 rock n rouleurs matanhale
8 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave
9 Eyeballs Out richardk9
10 petiagos petiagos
13 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter
15 Meagre Farmer Otto Tom Amos
15 Indurains lungs Samacollins
18 Chute Collective Chute Collective
19 DAMS-Lidl mafioso
21 Velodux Campagnolo
22 specialneeds specialneeds
24= Rangaedge Rangaedge
14 Standard Players in the Top 25. And the No. 1 spot in the competition? Held by a Standard player (tony kappler). Pretty amazing!
geargrinderbeard, Yes we all share the road. And we all need to give respect equally. I hadn't noticed an 'Us and Them' until you swung round and aimed at the pedestrian!
Hmmmmm. I don't think I suggested the whole BBC was? If you look again I was referring specifically to the way the BBC presents news stories in competition with commercial stations. After 40 years of listening to the BBC's news service they are increasingly presenting ridiculous scenarios in debates in order to spice up phone-ins - and reporting the mind numbingly obvious as revelatory or perhaps debatable. Looking at the shambles they've made over factual news in the past 10 years: rolling over when threatened over stories they've got right (the dodgy dossier) or running around like headless chickens when they've got a story wrong (Savile) I have no problem with criticising them.
Lord Reith would have got the road tax story right and lit a rocket under Radio Norfolk for bad journalism. And judging by Jeremy Vine's sometimes deliberately simplistic way of stimulating debate it's little wonder he no longer felt qualified to host Newsnight. Thank God for that.
Like the cat by the way. Looks fluffy and cosy.
If you want lower gears go for it. I recall seeing an article here last year that showed Wiggins Tour bike with a massive cassette on the back and a rear mech put together by the mechanics using an mtb cage to give it the capacity required. Me, I recently installed a deore xt mech so that I could run a 32 on the back - and I'm on a triple.
Just remember to be courteous to the purists pushing their bikes up that 20% as you pass them in the saddle
^^^ hahahahahahaha! Classic... Give me that axe, Eugene!
Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?
Thats exactly what the BBC is,a massive (sht)hole
Pedalling trite piss poor light entertainment reality TV shows and that misery cockney fest Eastenders day in day effing out
Shoving hundreds of thousands of pounds into the bank accounts of fcking chris moyles -Evans et al
no fucking way,not my money to those talentless dogs
Institutionalised kiddie fiddling and buggery for fucking decades rendering generations of kids mentally ill and thats without watching Jim ll fix it
yeah he'll fix it alright,his grubby shrivelled nob up a 12 year old
Arselicking whichever government is in power,disseminating lies and misinformation over a whole host of important issues
Time to dismantle that filthy organisation,execute the board,particulary the odious slimeball Patten,the Lord protectorate of fcking Hong Kong before thefuckin chinese handed his public school ass on a plate
Remember kids,if the TV license goons come to your door,chuck a steaming hot bucket of shit and piss over the bastards and tell them to fuck themselves
scumbags
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.
The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.
He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
In '87, Huey released Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
Careful just don't get caught in your hotel room with the bike.
Can Glasgow please invite Liverpool City Council to come take a look? They're still not using joined up thinking - and so not producing a joined up network.
Some other key benefits of bringing bikes in after a natural disaster - proven in Sri Lanka after the tsunami. Bikes were in and being used even before the waters had fully subsided, and needed no repairs to infrastructure. Of course the other nice detail is that after a total immersion, unlike an internal combustion engine a bike starts first time, and the bog snorkellers actually prove that bikes can be used underwater as well.
Ironically for the US the Viet Cong demonstrated this really effectively at Da Nang shipping around 50,000 T down the Ho Chi Minh trail with bikes - each bike carrying up to 250Kg and being pushed by the rider, with bamboo extensions to seatpost and handlebar. Supplies delivered rip off bamboo and ride the bike back for more.
You can ship around 200 bikes in a container which would otherwise take just one truck - that's 200 individual delivery systems that can get around broken roads AND you can mobilise the readily available local population (usually available because their workplaces have been destroyed) to work on their local recovery plan.
Bikes don't need fossil fuels, and 2 wins here, you don't waste vital cargo capacity shipping in fuel to power the trucks, and a major security/conflict of interest issue (fuel for generators or transport, and possible theft for black market sale).
Pick the right sort of bike and even bike spares don't become an issue. Relaxed geometry of the Flying Pigeon and similar bikes means they can be ridden with flat (or no tyres), and rod brakes (or coaster brakes) mean no cables breakages to worry about.
Surely it is the process - as you can create multiple designs in one print run without having to set multiple different machining tools in process at the same time to produce them? He mentions it at the beginning.
It is just a tube, but where the design improvements come in is being able to produce tricky shapes that are difficult to consistantly produce with molten metal mould processing or cutting. Did I imagine it or have Campag been producing a derailleur arm with 3D printing to reduce weight that can't be achieved with conventional methods?
It may have all sorts of medical and aerospace uses but in many respects with bicycles it's still a solution looking for a problem.
Thanks Gkam, got them clocked at £68.70 from fudges.
Want R2C as well but they're just too much.
Want to just get a solid, fast, beast of a machine for minimal expenditure.
May as well share mine. Fancy a breakaway to stay tomorrow, so no sprinters.
Nibali
Evans
Pirazzi
Betancur
Santambrogio
Felline
Marcato
Gatto
Canola
Some transfers banked, too.
TT shifters can be had for £70 at the moment, I have them on the trike, Was looking at R2C, but they are so expensive for all the benefit I would get. http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Sram-500-TT-Aero-Shifters_29923.htm
OR, you can get Dura Ace at the same price http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=34322
I'll keep an eye out for bars
I typically use three KMC chains per (basic) cassette in rotation and I change them every 1-2 weeks (200-400 miles)
It's very quick with a "Missing Link".
That way I expose my cassette to less wear than if I waited for individual chains to stretch up to 0.75% before replacement.
The added bonus is that I don't have to measure the wear.
P.S. Other than an occasional wipe I never deep clean or degrease them as it's not economically viable considering the time involved.
The one difference is they won't have had the tough climbs earlier on, anyway heres my team to tackle tomorrow. It will either work, or it won't, but I do expect Felline and Nava to be ok and be at the finish either way. Cav was incase, and Mezgec as he is cheap and only replaced Di Luca (who I can only see being at the finish if its a sprint anyway). I also axed Nibali, Santambrogio and Uran
Cav
Mezgec
Felline
Navardauskas
Kangert
Pellizotti
Majka
Betancur
Evans
Toby Hockley bears her no ill will - he just wants an apology, as he said earlier this evening on our Facebook page - I'll take my cue from him.
She appears to be a rather stupid young woman, dangerously stupid, but even if Toby doesn't want to take things further my guess is that she's going to find it hard to argue her way out of a charge of failure to stop at the scene of an accident. Even if there are consequences because of that if she's got half a brain, at some point in the future she's going to realise she was lucky - she may think she's in the shit now, but it's nothing compared to what would have happened had she seriously injured or killed Toby on Sunday.
Also what's the point of criticising people for displaying an irrational hatred of cyclists and then responding with more hatred? It just turns us in to a mirror image of them.
This is the exact reason after a lot of discussion and advise on this board that I decided to stick to clinchers. The benefits just are not worth a daily chore.